A friend of mine lent me his SIRT Training Pistol over the holidays (poor soul wants it back too, and I’ve been both sick and on the opposite side of the county for the past few weeks) and I’ve realized I’m really, really missing something in my shooting.

You see, I can draw the SIRT from my side, aim at a point no bigger than a credit card anywhere I want, and put the green dot right on it. Repeatedly. And quickly too. Want me to move between 5 different targets? No problem. <10 yards and I can point shoot with perfection, above that I can use the sight and nail the spot over and over.

One, the SIRT is a Glock based pistol shape, which isn’t what I shoot. If they had an M&P shape, I’d hop on that in a heartbeat. Two, while the trigger is tunable, it’s not my trigger, which is an APEX. Still, it’s dry fire practice and I’m amazed at how quickly I was able to really improve my initial aim.

I do wonder if the lack of recoil is an issue. I know the gun isn’t going to jump when I pull the trigger and that might have a lot to do with why I stay on target. I’ve never really considered myself recoil sensitive, especially in competition where I honestly don’t realize it’s happening. But if I shot as well with my M&P as I do with that SIRT, I’d be an A-Class shooter in no time.

I almost want to buy one, if it only came in an M&P flavor I would. However, it’s great for dry fire without having to rack your slide each time which to me makes DF practice extremely tiring and honestly, not as effective as I think it should be since racking after each pull isn’t a natural motion.

When you decide to get one, I sell them through the store and I think that tuning for a heavy crappy trigger is a good thing, because if you use it, you can use your great Apex trigger (which I also sell).

As for setting the lasers, raise the dots to sit just above the front sight so that you can see them when focusing on the front sight. If you are looking at the target instead you are doing yourself a disservice.

Robb, it's either grip angle or you're still dropping too many IQ points at the buzzer since you don't get to do many matches. Though I'm banking on the former being the bigger problem.

Most of my shooting is with my G34 and G35. When I would switch to my 1911, it slows me way down because the grip that works instinctively when I draw my Glocks ends up with the front sight WAY too high when I draw the 1911. I have to retrain the hell out of myself if I want to switch to CDP/Single Stack, so I just don't do those for the time being.

Rob try putting some masking tape or a rubber band in the ejection port. When the gun is slightly out of battery you can work your trigger in practice. It helps a bunch for transitions and stuff where the click is less important than the manipulation of the trigger. I have a SIRT and as a Glock shooter I still will use my competition gun/holster to practice.